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Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-06-18
COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.
aRANDMorHER,s GARDEN.

GRANDMOTHER,S GARDEN.
The sunfowerssby the garden wall,
Unblinking, stare up at the sun;
The,fgs beside the gateway tall
Are purpling tor my pretty one.
lie beneath the leafy vine
That forms the arbor's grateful shade
md watch the clusters, rich in wine,
Blush with the nectar yet unmads.
.:ssiled by the lazy hum of bees,
half doing on my bed of rue,
1hear, from yonder clump of trees,
As miles away the ring-doves' COO.
The yarrow and the cumfrey grow
Beside the walk, those brothers twain.
WhereWith my grandam many woe
Has cured and many dreary pain.
And exc the fennel and the sage,
Hoarhound and catnip, famed for tea,
Stand conscious, like an eastern image,
Ofwondrous powers that in them be.
And parsley that full many boar,
In England merry days hath icrowned,
Proud of it's noble use of yore,
Curls, scorning humber herbs around.
And thyme that frantic drives the bees,
Contending with the butterflies
Nho first the envied bloom shall seize,
And rob 1t of its honied prize.
Beneath the willow stands the urn,
And Faunus there doth never cease
His dreaming marble eyes to tulnu
In search of Dryad-haunted Greece.
Grandmother's garden! favored spot,
Where peeping from its leaves Of green,
see the yellow apricot
Nod to the scarlet nectarine.
Grandmother's gardenl we'll know
Its fower-bordered walks, its trees;
Such golden fruit did never grow
Where watched the fair Hesperides.
How green this simple ancient closet
How cool when twilight gins to fall
How sweet the odor Of the rose
That Chambers DER the messy wall.
+ 0 little sprig of fragrant thyme,
Which childhood fingers did bestow
Thou'st conjured up in modern rhyme
The garden of the long ago!
There world-sick I in fancy, rest
Like some poor child, hurt In its play,
That lies upon its mothers breast,
And sobs its every grief away.
W. IT. DUMAS in the Atlanta Constitution.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-06-18

New York reporters have formed To-
cal assembly
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-06-18

No trouble to swallow DR.. Pierce's Pellets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

The birds mature early, often beginning
to lay when Only five months old. They
are good foragers and are easily kept,
often thriving we'll with no water except
tub Or trough for bathing purposes. In
size the Rouen is the heaviest, the Ayles-
bury comes next, and the Chinese third !;
but there is little difference between them,
fine, heavy specimens of the three breeds
ranging between eleven and thirteen
pounds. Some insist that the average
Pekin is heavier than the verage Ayles-
bury, and the focks we have seen certain
ly seemed to justify this estimate but
the Pekin is of a yellowish Or cream tinge.
The following is the scale of points for
the Pekin duck and drake:
Head, long and finely formed; plumage,
white; eyes, deep laden hue; bill, of med
ium size, deep yellow, and perfectly free
from marks of any other color. Neck,
rather long and large in the drake, in the
duck of medium length; plumage, pure
white or creamy white. Back, long and
broad; piumage, white or creamy white.
Breast round and full; body, very long
and deep, and in adult birds approaching
the outlines of parallelogram; plumage,
white or creamy white throughout. Wings.
short and carried compactly and smooth
iy against the sides; plumage, white
Tail, rather erect. the curled feathers in
the drake being hard and stiff; Piumage
white. Shanks, short and strong and of
reddish orange color: plumage, downy
and of faint creamy white.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

Potatoes and most vegetables will keep
better in dark, damp cellar than in a
light dry one. and will keep better in a
cool cellar than in q warm one. Light Is
injurious to the potato, rendering it
strong and unpalatable.
Corn is often ruined fer seed in the
shock or in the barn after 1t is got in and
before husking, if the latter be delayed
even week. The aampness favors the
growth of minute molds and fungi that
kill the germ. Such corn, though ap-
parently sound, has dull look.
Mulch heavily between the rows Of
strawberries as seon as the ground
freezes, aud the plants lightly. In the
spring the plants viii easily grow through
the mulch, and the berries will rest upon
it. Leave the mulch between the
rows until after fruitage-then culti-
tivate.
Cornstalks have much less sweetness
in them before they blossom or tassel,
as it is usually called. Analysis shows
this, and a cow given her choice of the
two confirms the verdict of chemical
science. The stalks improve until the
e ars are fully formed and begin to hard
en-.
The manure and liquid drOppings
from stock that have been mixed and alb
sorbed with sawdust may be applied with
advantage upon clay soils, which it light
ems and relieves Of that sticky. tenacious
quality which prevents such soil from
absorbing manure as generally appli-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
Receiving Calls.
Good Housekeeping.

L want to urge every woman who has
any but very intimate friends to have an
afternoon in the week to receive calls.
Many women Of wealth and social position
have adopted the fashion, perhaps at first
because it was fashion, but there is a
great deal more than that to be said in
its favor, and it is to the busy woman,
who has every moment occupied with
household duties and yet keeps her hold
on social life, who will find it saving of
time ana a means of snatching some
passing pleasure and repose, from what
otherwise is an occasional vexation,
whom the custom would help most. The
advantage of a receiving day is often fully
understood, but women who make no So
cial pretension shrink from it for fear of
being thought ;'airy" or aping fashion,
but it is just these women who might look
on it as an absolute duty to themselves,
and real kindness to their friends.
How many of us do not know what it is
to have an acquaintance, who Is both
agreeable, and, would be welcome, call on
Us just as we are doing something that we
are nervOusly anxious to finish, or that
requires our undivided attention; fortu-
nate we are not in the middle of some
delicate cooking that will spoil by leaving
it. There are then but two things TO do
ask our visitor right into the kitchen or
work room, or leave everything and go to
her just as we are: anything is better
than to keep her waiting. If We do the
first, she will know that she has just come
at the wrong time, and feel that she is in
truding in spite of your assurance that
you wish her to stay, and in fact if you
go on busily with your occupation you
really can not enjoy your visit, while if
you leave everything you will show the
marks perhaps of being busy, and your
mind will wander to the oven that was
just right, and is now cooling, or to the
work that you wanted to finish so spec
tally to-day: in any case, you do not en-
JOY the visit, and your visitor will feel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

that you have been very polite, but that
she might have chosen better time.
By having day" you do away with all
this, and you save time. You know the
afternoon or evening when your friends
will call, and you arrange accordingly.
1on need lose time only for that day;
you will have no exacting work in hand;
you will be dressed and ready, and stock
ing darning or small mending, although
not parlor work, may be left to pick up
and can be put away without mental anx-
lety when visitors arrive. If you have
made it known that you have given up
this day land you can pleasantly also give
your reas ons), you may have several calls
at one tine, while otherwise each would
have come separately and separately taken
your TINA. Your callers will probably en-
JOY meeting each other, and you, with
mind quite free, will be at your best.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
Pekin Ducks.
Rural New Yorker .

Is the raising of ducks profitable?
That will depend largely on having prop
er facilities for raising them. A pond Or
stream near by seems necessary for profit
able duck raising after the birds are
large enough to leave the coop, which
they should not be allowed to do until
they are about two weeks old. No one
raises ducks for the sale of the eggs in
the market; because in quality ducks
eggs are considered inferior to those of
the hen; more labor is required to obtain
them, because unless the birds are COOP
ed every night they Will drop their eggs
careiessly where it is often difficult or
Impossible to find them; and because a
duck lays fewer eggs than hen, and
what she does lay are usually dropped
when eggs are cheapest. With proper
facilities and care, however, duck raising
Is hkety to become more popular. The
Wild supply is growing smaller each
year. and in spite of the fashion of Law
lsh1ng praise on the gamey flavor of wild
ducks, the flesh of the young tame duck
fed artiticially away from water is really
better eating. Moreover, experts say
duck meat can be produced for less cost
per pound at ten weeks of age than any
other poultry meat. Then, again, with
little care and warm food. a tame duck
can be induced to lay earlier than wild
and the use of incubators enables poultry
men to have green ducks for market
during the holiday season, when wild
ducks can not be had. Young ducks at
ten weeks old can be madea to average
seven pounds to the pair double the
weight of average chicken broilers of
that age. while the price is fully as high.
and the cost considerably less.
As to breeds, the Rouen, Aylesbury and
Pekin are generally considered the most
profitable. Opinions differ as to the COM
parative superiority Of these three; but
probably the Pekin has the most friends.
1t Is Chinese breed which has forced
Itself into popular favor of late years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
She Asked the Conundrum,and Noodle Guessed.
Toledo Blade

one Asked Tile C0nunuruIn anu NOOule GUESSED.
Toledo Blade
Mrs. Noodle is great woman to pro-
pound conundrums, and she takes fiend-
ish delight in springing them on the inno
cent, unsus pecting, but pestiferOus Mr..
Noodle. The other day she came at him
with an old gag when he was reading the
evening paper, and the following interest
ing interview will bea good guide for con-
undrum springrs. 1t is a fair sample of
how woman goes at it:
"My DEAR" said Mrs. Noodle, 81 want to
ask you csnundrum. Can you guess it?"
''Can guess what?" said Noodle, alb
sently.
"Why, the conundrum."
"What conundrum?"
''Why, the one I'm going to ask you"
"Now, my DEAR" said Noodle, as he
looked over his paper, don't you think
you had better spring it before I attempt
to answer it? 1 don't like conundrums,
but if you are bound to practice on me,
fire away. but as you love me, don't ask
me any idiotic unguessables."
eff you had kept your temper, Mr.. Moo
de-" said the affectionate spouse, 81 was
about to ask you the conundrum."
Swell, go ahead"
"You want to choke nae off, but I won't
be choked OFF. have right to ask you
anything choose" This little spite
fully.
'I'm ready. Pull the string"
'Don't be foolish, Noodle. Now what
want to ask is this: There are two men.
One has two legs and the other has no
legs. Now, the man with two legs can't
walk and the man with no legs can walk.
=.
die, in her eagerness to smite him with
| the answer.
''Give what ups"
''The conundrum, of course"
| 'What's the question:"
! "The man with two legs can't walk, and
the man with no legs can. What is
it?"
''What is what?''
| 'EThe answer"
| ''You haven't asked me any question
yet"
| 81 know, but what IS it?''
II should think that's just what it
was"
ssWhat?''
"A what is it,
"Don't try to be funny, Mr.. Noodle.
You wont succeed" said Mrs. Noodle,
irritatedly.
''That's the way of it. You women
think we must sit around and do nothing
but answer idoiotic questions. Now
what kind of conundrum do you call
thata A man nas two legs and can't
walk Another has no legs and can.
What is it? Why, you're absurd, Mrs.
Noodle
aAnybody but Ounce could answer
the conundrum."
"Therc is no conundrum to answer, my
dear Mrs. Noodle
'sWhy don't you you ask me what it is,
teaen?"
'What what is ?''
"The answer"
@'The answer to whats"
"The conundrum."
''What conundrum?"
You're fool, Mr.. Noodle"
aWel, Mrs. Noodle what is it? I'll
Just be fool enough to ask YOU"
cts a lie. There you might have ask
ed me long ago."
/ II think that's about the worst conun-
drum I eveu heard" and Mr.. Noodle re-
sumed his reading
Several lawsuits for damages have been
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railway has been we'll named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explored woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never been fshed by
white men. all well stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted. The woods abound with game;
deer, bear, wolf, mink. beaver, pheasant,
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee TO the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan-Go-
gebic, Wakefield, Bcssemer, Ironwood and
Hurley.
Direct line to ASHLAND and beyond.
Sleeping cars between ASHLAND, MIL
WAUKEE and CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descriptive
after. containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent on application to
the General Passenger Agent.
CHAs. A. COLE, Gen. Agent, los Wash
ingtOn St., Chicago.
Chicago Depot, Cor. Wells and Kinzie
Sts., &c. q N. w. R'y.)
H. f. WHITCOMB, CHAs. V. McKINLAY
Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass Agent,
MILWAUKEE,. WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
FARM. HOME AND GARDEN
NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER.
C. DODGE, IN DETROIT FREE PRESS.

Nobody knews of t.e work it makes
10 keep The home together;
Nohody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but mother.
Nobody listens to childish woes
Which kisses only smother;
Nobodys panied by naughty blows,
Nobody-only mother.
Nobody knows Of the sleepless care
Bestowed on baby brother;
Nobody knows of the tender pray'r
Nobody-only mother.
Nobody knows of the lessons taught
OF loving one aaofher;
Nobody knows Of the patience sought,
Nobody-onIy mother.
Nobody knows OF the anxious fears
Lest darling may not weather
the storm of life in after years
Nobody knows-but mother.
Nobody kneels at the throne above
To thank the Heavenly Father
For that sweetest gift-a mothers love;
Nobody can-but mother.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
FARM NOTES

Rip out your unnecessary fences and
pile up the posts and rails or boards
neatly, and protect them from the water
until you have use for them. Every fence
that is not absolutely needed is costly
nuisance.
All the plans for next season should be
arranged now. Have everything in readi-
ness to begin work when busy spring
comes, as no time can then be spared to
those matters which may be overlooked
nov.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
Coed and True Sayings of Marion HarlanA
The Housewife

Inc housewife.
The builIin of the unsystematie
housekeeper is the heaping together Of
bouIders with crevices between, through
which the winds Of disappointment whis-
tie sharply. System is not talent. Still
less is it genius. 1t is a duty! She who
sbirks it does herself and her household
irrepaeable wrong.
To overcome evil with good is the su-
blimest work set for mortals, but as with
other sublime heights, the ascent to the
peak of -abnegation is slow, toilso me,
and often cruelty sharp to the feet of be-
ginners. The crueifxion of self de-
mands that nails should be driven in SO
many tender places that human nature
recojls.
We are ia danger Of looking too far for
opportunities of doing good and COM
municating. In reaching for rhododen-
drons we trample down the daisies.
It saddens us to know how few whose
nights, of weeping endures long, the day
ever breaks in this world Perhaps they
will enjoy the eternal sunlight more for
having CROPPED so long in darkness.
IS ystem F" is sagacious and economi
cal appointment of duty to hour and min
ute; an avoidance of needless waste of
time; courageous putting forth OF the
hand to the pillow instead of talking over
the work to be done while the morning
moments are flying
Do not defraud your children of joys
which are their birthright, merely be-
cause, never having tasted them for your
self, you do not appreciate their value.
IA loveless marriage is an runchaste I'M
ion. It is worse for woman to sell her
self for home and a livelihood than to
fig ut hand to hand with poverty all her
life.
Oh, the silent heroism of those COM
monplace women who are slow OF speech
and heavy of visage, save when perhaps
once in a life-t time they look into our eyes
with dumb piteousness that rives our
souls and startles US as if the earth had
caved under our feet in what we thought
was a sure place-as if the stone had cried
out TO us out of the WALL
Have faith in your own abilities. You
acilL be a better housekeeper for the men
tai training you have received at home
and from books. Brains tell everywhere,
to say nothing of intelligent observation,
just judgment, faithful memory and
orderly habits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

Several lawsuits for damages have been
entered against the Burlington railroad
on account of the recent fatal
aoeident to a sleighing party at Nelson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

LEGAL BLANKS
AT THE
WOOD co, REPORT TER OFFICE.
FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Appeal-N Notice, Affidavit and Undertaking.
Attachment-w Warrant and Affidavit.
Bill OF costs.
Garinshee Ahsavits.
Summons.
Observation-Disclosures and Affidavit.
Subpenas.
Summons-with filing and Return.
Venire.
And full line of blanks used by any Justice
of the Peace.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Land Contracts, (Bond for deed)
Lease-No. , for Farm land.
:" 3 = a term of years for city
property.
Mechanics Leiu-Petition for material and
labor.
Mortgages-For real estate-Prepared specl-
ally for Wood County Records.
Warranty Deeds-Prepared for Wood County
Records.
Chattel Morris age-No1.
5. Several Notes
Satisfaction of Mortgage.
Assignment .
Notice to Tenant to quit Premises.
Genera,fiadave for Pnsion,
Physicians aiiGavits for Pension.
Saloon License bonds.
General Power of Attorney.
Quit-Claim Deed-No. /. form 1886.
Search Warrant, and Affidavit.
STATIONERY
No. /. Legal Cap-Lineu.
Abstract or Department Logal-Numbered
lines.
Letter Heads printed to order.
Note .
Bill F"
Envelopes
Business Cards - "a
Tags-all sizes
Circulars
Show Bills all kinds . %
Tablets of white paper for pencils.
9 4" q pen, all sizes kept
in stock.
We propose to keep all blanks used in Circuit
Court, Justices Court and those of NJ iscella-
neous character noted above.
JOB DEPARTMENT.
We have in this department a complete line
of job Material and Type for doing frst-class
Job work on short notice and at the lowest
living prices We do all kinds of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

Owns and operates nearly $500 miles OF thor
oughly equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota
It is the Best Direct Route be-
tween all principal points in the
Northwest Southwest and Far
West
For maps, time tables rates of passage and
fr light etc. apply to the nearest station agent of
the CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, & ST.. PAUL RAILWAY,
or 10 any Railroad Agent anywhere III the
World.
L MILLER, Avn. CARPENTER.
General Manager Gen. Pass. and Tkt Agt.
:. f. TUCKER, GEO H. HEAFFORD.
Asst Gen. Man. Asst. Gen. Pass. and Tkt ACT
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
4 Model Reform Farsa.

A good sample of purely reformatory
farm may be found near Red -hill, in
Surrey, England. This the oldest and
the best of British reform atories, having
been founded in 1885 by the philan
thropic Society. There are similar in
situations, and most admirable ones, in
Germany, in all successful cases founded
and stimulated by private enterprise.
In the German institutions both boys and
adults who need help and employment,
and are willing to work and learn, are
received and fitted for agricultural and
mechanical occupations. The Red-hill
establishment cosrstitutionally is made
up Of boys who have been brought before
magistrates and convicted of crime.
At present over 500 are inmates of the
institution. The society does not aim at
punishment, but reform. The boys do
nearly all the work of the farm. There
are also shops where trades may be learn
ed, but the main Cbjec is to train practi-
cal farmers and gardeners, who will be
useful at home, or in the colonies. Every
effort is made, of course, to inoulcate in
dUstry and q sense of honor, and consid-
cradle -rivelry has sprung up between
the boys Of the different lodging houses
in these respects.
The school was first begun in the sub
urbs of Tendon, but since it extended its
sphere of action and moved into the coun-
try, it has admitted 1881 boys, of whosn
L ,424 have emigrated. Since 1856 the in
stitution has dealt with about one-twelfth
of the reformatory boys in England, and
their average reconviction is much less
than that of others, especially state reform
schools. 1t has been found that terms of
three years have reclaimed 20 per cent.
of the boys, terms of four years SO per
cent. and terms of five years over 80 per
cent. OF course there are disappoint-
ments. Many of the boys are incurably
vicious, and go headlong to the bad after
their release; but the majority are trans
formed from idlers and criminals to use
full and seR-supporting members OF So
eiety- The government inspectors have
made favorable reports of the working of
this philanthropic institution. The sec
rotary of the Royal Agricultural Society
was inspired by a recent visit TO write a
Mandatory pamphlet on the Importance Of
farm training in reform schools. 4
point worth consideration seems to be
that in private enterprises of this sort the
boys receive a more disinterested and
sympathetic supervision and training
than would be practically possible in the
best state institutions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

s2s-For notices in reference to Special Excur-
siens, changes of time. and other items of inter-
est IN connection with the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE,
L ST.. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to The local
columns of this paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

mo man can look dignifed in wom-
ans eyes while takining care of baby"
obs erves an exchange. 1t is probably
Just as we'll that such is the case. When
there Is baby around no woman will
look at the man.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-09-15

LITTLE Rock, Sept. li-Some time
In June last man representing HIM
self As Henry Puris, wholesale gro
Ger of Chicago, began taking baths
at the johannesburg hot spri !,
where he had boon a frequent bsther
until yc,tc, lay About Two week,
ago Kate Ledward, a colorcd girl,
came there TOR few days rs u servant.
Pur met her aud lost his heart Last
night he secured his license, and this
morning they were married by Rev
w Il Carson, pastor oi the A. NJ, T..
church taking a train AZ once for Chi.
csgo, Puri- made his wife u wedding
present o. $4,000 in cash and his
check for 5000 Kate has been mar
ried and divorced from - negro hus.
band.